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    Books Received :— Messrs. A. 8. Barnes &...

    Willett to the present Old Masters Exhibition in Burlington House . As to their authorship , while

    regarding them as possessing many of the characteristics of Leonardo da Vinci's earlier manner , he prefers , until more is certainly known about

    them , to speak of their painter as ' The Master of San Martino '—the name of the palace or castle lying between Mantua and Bresciain which they

    formed part of the panel decoration , . A second paper , with illustrations on Art in Venice , and some pi ^ p * ^ PP * ^ PP ^^ PBPPJ ^ PP' interesting ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ " ¦ ^^^ " " »^^ - ^ T ^^ ^^ " ~ - ~ ^ pppt current ^^^ ~~—^ m ^^^ ^—^ ~^ " ~ ^^—^^— ^ " ~ notes ~— —^ T —~ ^ ~~ , ^ p comp " ~~ ~^ « ~~ let ~~ ~— e ~~ an

    excellent number . — CasselVs Family Magazine ( Cassell & Co . ) has a pretty song , with music , by Mr . Hamilton Clarkea clever -v composer - ~ who too

    p ^^ ^ p ^^ p ;^^ ^ ^^—^^^^ —m ^_—™—™— ^— — , — - — w— , — seldom writes ; a most useful paper on ' Modelling in Clay as a Remunerative Employment '; a Post Office — — article — ____ , by Thomas - — _ Archer _ , partl ^ . y descrip j-^ ^

    tive and partly reflective , styled ' Catching the Post ; ' and a travel paper , by William Sharp , telling — of * A Belgian Holiday' or rather of an

    ^ 7 ** o / , English , tourist's holiday in Belgium . This paper is prettily illustrated . The Prize Story 1 PI P for ^^ " ^^^ PP ^ which V V ^^^^ PPJ P * ^ PPF PPr ^^ P ^ £ ^¦^ PP' 5 ^ pP * was * V ^ Pj *^ P P ^ PP awarded ^»*^ P ^ V *¦ ^ P ^^*^ PPPJ ^ P ^^ Pi ^ PP ^ ^^^ PJ b P ^"" y V the ^ P ? P ^ . ^^ " ^ PP ^ editor ^ P ^ ^^ Pp » ^^ ^ " ^ ^ PT ™ for " ¦ i ~^ " ~

    ^—^—the best tale illustrating a popular proverb , is printed in this number , and is a pleasant little bit — - ^ p » ^ h ^ pp of ^ pr pppj fiction ^* - ^~ ^ pr ^^ ^ ^~ ^^ , y based i * ¦ » * - ^^ ^ m * ^^^ p 1 on ^ p ^ ^ p ^ ppv the ^ r ^^^» " ^» r adage " " ^^ p . ^ ^^ A ^^^ ^^^ ' ^ . ^^ Faint ¦^ P * ^ ^»»^^ ^ P' p Heart ^ pp"PP ^ ^ p ^ ' ¦ ~ ^~^ ^ " ^

    Ne ' er Won Fair Lady , ' by Lilias Campbell David-I son within . Many the pages other of good the familiar things are yellow contained cover | I

    i and . among them x \ j a good word must be given to , 'i Miss Barbara Foxley ' s notes on * University Life for Women . ' — In Longmans Magazine Mr .

    Richard Jeiferies takes up his parable to tell us what is to come ' After the County Franchise . ' Accepti P | Ph *^ Pfc ^ PP" ^ P ^ ^ P ^ iPP' ^^™ - ^ ng ^^^^^^ pa ^ p & the - ^^ pp » ^^ m ^™~ extension - ^^ r —^^^ " ^^ m *^ p ^ pp > . ^ ^^ m" ^» ~^^ r ^^^^™ of ^ pp ^ pv the - ^& ^ p »^^ M ^ p ^ suffrage *^^^ VP ^ P P" ^^ PP > ^ PP 1 ^^ PP * ^ BVH ^ P' as ^ ^ pr ¦^ P' a ^^*^ V thing ^ PP ^ P ^^ P * *^ BPk ^^ hp .

    accomplished , he foretells the growth of a demand for local government , and a tendency to imitate in the villages and hamlets the follies perpetrated I

    O IT & in towns . As forewarned is forearmed , Mr . Jefferies comes forward , not only as seer , but as teacher - ~ — , and sketches - - an - _ - - ideal — - _ - _ - m-r m of - ^ village ^^ - - pf ^^^ l ^^ govern A ^^^^ P ^^ ^^^

    -ment by means of a council , and outlines the problems which in all probability would come before V ¦ its ¦ members ¦ ¦ . r p If ^^^ " bH ri i « ghtl PPJPB «^^ pip > 1 directed pi m such >^ p Pi a

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    J . % l - C 3 which he says he has in all his thoughts is the acquisition of public and the preservation of I I pri jl vate liberty % r . This l is a — vigorous cp — and very — */

    interesting article . A . K . H . B . ' will be welcomed in these pages now that Fraser is no more , and his review of the Life of Lord Lyndhurst is

    a most interesting piece of reading-, though it will evoke some criticism . « The Jce Harvest on the Hudson River' will tell many

    stayat-home readers a good deal about a very interesting trans-Atlantic process ; and then , for the fiction lhave the continuations

    i jjlc xx \^ vi \ jyx iwvoia overs , , we wo ihjlv o liio cuiiLii . iiin . LJ . ui . liS of Mrs . * Oliphant ' s < Madam ' and Mr . Clark Russell PW PPi # 1 ' s sailo PPPPi df r ' s yarn ^^ , f ' Jack A Pb ' s Courtshi ^^~ ^^ - Pft A -w - ¦ i - PPi — p ^ / ^ p while — — ¦ - - — - d ^^^ . . .

    Christie Murray contributes a lively sketch ^ of the ' Lively Fanny . ' Good , from first to last , is Longman ' s for February . —Little Folks

    ( Cassell & Co . ) having given us a coloured frontispiece last month , must forgive us for noting that the frontispiece this month lacks colour ,

    though the engraving * Hatching the Plot * is a capital piece of work , full of light and shade . A * seasonable icture—quite a + m its IV

    —•»¦¦ - UWMIMVAILHMJIVI p kfAVUU &\ J VJ MILUV * JU gem £ ^ . KSMM * i M-M J I'M way If T I is St . Valentine ' s Morning / presenting a cottage I door , over which the figures 1637 proclaim its

    ancient date , " while at the open portal stand two girls , dark-haired ^ Nelly with her looked-for missivesand blue-eyed Mollybroom in hand

    , , , 4 i glancing over her shoulder and whispering * I

    never Painting ^— had / ' a The — valentine Grames ! ' and * Hints Amusem on ents Crystoleum -w «^ of the

    •~ " - — — — ^ 2 p ^^~~ ^/ a . vUtj to Month ^ fc # ¦ ^ M the I Am . magazine / 9 and - - M many - - ^^ . pi— which ^_ ^ other ^ p * . # > L « . rfp ^ PMA has good 4 ~ hm ¦"¦ ^ its ^ ^ m papers ppwpa usual pV ^ pbppip & ^ p ^ ju- frei give — _ _ ghtage variet K of y

    fictio « -pp- w n -mr and - ¦ p ») useful — - - notes — . We must not forget ^ ^ " ^^^* S 5 k ^ 3 111 to mention »*» ^ " «^— ¦* ' *¦ - ^ p' —^ the — — second — — ¦ - paper on * Mornings — " —— y ^ P *» » tfy at | the HIU r-w « • excellent tt . descri Jl * ! »___ of /» .

    Zoo / giving an ption the Tepttle house type Clarke readirg with & Co ) illustrations combines for the little . clever — The folks pictures Rosebud in the with nursery ( James laTge also them wim with music music

    and ana also gives gives mem a a song song bv by Mr Mr . ¦¦ ( Crampton » S r ^^^ . S ^^ . ^ ^ Institute ^ pp » — . — ¦ — ^ tfk The — — -i ) » introduces ppb Church — — _ ~ . — Sunday m ih > us to School an *^ BL ppp- E Magazine ¦— piscopal h ^ ^ p ^^ ^ p ^ M « L ' ^ ^^

    poet , Lord Plunket , the ^ Bishop of Meath , who contributes a meditation on the Te Deum , written after attending morning service in Trinity College

    a Chapel set of , . Dublin lanations . — The of Church ecclesiastical Worker is terms publishing calculated pi to exp be r ~*^ ' ^ pf' ¦ useful ¦ ¦¦ ¦ but ¦ the pages a of the magazine

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    Laws/—Church Bells ( 12 Southampton Street , Strand ) gives for the modest sum of sixpence four handsome plates—portraits of the Kevs . George

    Huntington and L . E . Shelford , and pictures of the Churches of Westerham , Kent , and Attenboroug fc hNorthants h —in addition to eighty or

    ninety p ^^^ - ^ m * pip ^ ^^»^ ^ p ^^^^ pjp ^ B ^ pages ^ ^^ , ^ m ^»^^ " - ^^ of ^^^ ^^ r ^^ r ^ letterpress ^^ ^»^^ ^^^— ^^^ -pr — ¦ - of ^ ----- interest — - to - Church ^ ^ - ^ m - men of all schools . The monthly parts are well adapted ^ P ^ V ^^^ P >^ ^ P * P |^^ T VP ^ ^^ r ^^ 'H H for ^ ^ . pP PP pPP readers | ~^^^ ^ h ^^ P > ^ PPP ^ P ^ ^^ T ^*^ r in ^^ ^^ v ^^ h the ^^ v ~^^— ~^— colonies ¦¦ ^ ^ ^ - ^ — — . —Pitman — ' s

    Musical Monthly ( 20 Paternoster Row ) presents its readers with the * Terra Cotta Valse' for the p several ianoforte ¦ K ^^ XJUJ old ; a melodies voluntary & VVtiAVW and for ¦*¦*» . a organ bud » v ¦»« . —^ . get or harmonium of musical ,

    K ^ W V . ^^ , AV » J-AXV * - «* ** ^ w f ^ ^^ " ^^ ~ " Lock news , and & Co gossi . ) combines p . —Sylvia fiction ' s Home , essays Journal , and sketches ( WaTd latest latest , ,

    with with Parisian coloured coloured fashions plates relates , accompanied and and engravings eneravinss by directions of ot me the as to * making UlaAlLJU them l-J . i ^ Xli up U . kJ / . Among J . ± . LU \ Jllf ^ \ other J \ JLt . ^ M readable jlvu / v *""' - ' papers XT f

    is an amusing skit on 'Musical "At Homes . "'The Street first Strand paper ) suggests in Merry Eng secret land communica ( 44 Esses

    -. some O tion ffice on , for the it g part ives of us the just editor at the with right the moment Joh War

    a pleasant sketch of Chinese Gordon , ' by n Old vviu castle ccicsLic , , with wilu . a a portrait uuitiuiij yjx of . the vu-o abl « uiu e general ^ border - on fo

    whose many action interests in depend Egypt . and The beyond ' Cardinal the Archbishop V . ; d ^ vx of ^ -P Westminster TXT ^ ,,+ w ^ ,-. . « - « - « ' ( Dr n Manning TVTaTiTiin ( y ) ^ wn "WTlteS "

    on « Consistency . ' When he comes . to explain the i from curious ruiu the departure creed ui of their of certain youththe tao leading voj Cardinal politicians arrives

    at the comforting creou men and comfortable yuiuu , , conclusion . "'" " * . that ' a man is not inconsistent who good reason I

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    gus Jud uescri descri ge ' bes oes s Marshal tile the lortuneH fortunes on Circuit oi of the tuo ; ' Mr Victoria uclw . E- N Tnestr - . -- W hall I

    concert under -v « j its room new reg and ime Mr as W a . Roberts temporanco discusses a me i

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    have and Engra Part vers II . , of edited Bryan by ' s Robert Dictionary Edmund ° f /" tfra "Z > I I of oi the in ® British luuseumThe part before ^* x # g I

    uriiisa Museum . . jljd « paiu wo « - font I from Buch to Cazenave , and includes '^ Y ^ III articles better i . _! . - _ .. known i on Bolswert _„ Giotto y ^ i- _ * . i , the the _ . !__ great engraver « . Italian Tfoiinri ; •» Dftlu ° " * J ' . III Ill I

    Sebastian Bourdon as _ the , French pai nter n engraver ; the two , Brueghels , Peter Calift ^ an" ^ I

    Veronese Buonarroti ); ( Jacques Michelangelo Callot ); , P the aolo ¦ S r ® a ^ " ^ thef ^ 1 T PPIIK P-PV V and -PPPP » WPP Annibale . —¦ P Carracci - » - — — - — and tn - _ . ^ 1 engraver members ^ p . ^ ^^ P' """ J ; VA of the ^ ' " — —^ " — ' ^— ¦ ^ ^ " ^ —^ ^^ nte ^^^ ' family ^^ _ ^ ^ ^^^ H

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 1, 1884, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01021884/page/14/